In mid-August, my 15-year-old son and I have 10 days to travel from Zürich to Munich for our our flight home to the US.
The plan is Zürich ? Innsbruck ? Bolzano ? Salzburg ? Munich. Advice would be helpful.
• The last time I travelled in the area was 30+ years ago with a backpack and a copy of "Let's Go Europe" (this included an accidental visit to Italy's South Tyrol near Balzano*).
• Prior to the start of this trip, we will have already spent some time in Switzerland. We're probably going to skip staying in Zürich and head directly to Innsbruck. Right now, we're thinking of splitting the ten days between: 2 days in Innsbruck, 3 days in Bolzano, 2 days in Salzburg, and 3 days in Munich. Does that seem a reasonable split of the days?
• One option is renting a car for the whole trip, but the $500 one-way inter-country dropoff fee is excessive. However, if we take the train to Innsbruck, pick up a car in Innsbruck, use it to drive to Bolzano, and then to Salzburg to drop off the car, and then take the train to Munich, both start and finish of the car rental would be in Austria and there would be no dropoff fee.
• Or we could take the train everywhere, but rent a car in Bolzano for a day or two to explore South Tyrol.
• Any recommendations on where to stay in the cities we're visiting?
• Any suggestions on places to visit along our itinerary?
*My trip to South Tyrol 30 years ago was accidental. A college friend gave me an address in the town of Naturno/Naturns (near Bolzano) for a location to meetup on our separate European trips. When I got to Naturno, no one had any idea where the address was. But it was a beautiful area (thus why I want to return), so I stayed a day or two in Naturno, then hitchhiked to the Munich train station, where by chance I bumped into a different college friend. When I returned home to the US, and asked my friend what the deal was with the address; he mispelled the name of the town. It was actually in Nettuno (near Rome).
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